MIT Solve

Basic Information

About Your Solution

What makes the solution innovative:

We provide an improved inclusive technology that trigger proactive decision in the Agriculture ecosystem where as our competitors operate as vertical vertical business model which results in users needing several different systems to achieve a spectrum of tasks. Our horizontal model fosters rapid growth and innovation in the industry by allowing multiple providers to work with a common framework as a result the vertical models are becoming our complementors instead of being our competitors.

How the solution demonstrates 'privacy by design':

Our platform involves data sharing in order to ensure transparency in the agriculture value chain. We provide private key that ensures user data protection and privacy to only authenticated user who is granted access privileges at defined levels (read, write and execute) and public key which is meant for sharing data by granting access privileges to only authenticated entities that directly offers support to farmers.

How the solution can be incorporated into digital identification systems:

By use of our FarmCode platform where by a code that is assigned to a farmers and respectively entities does progressively and proactively generate valuable information in the agriculture value chain. This is cost effective as because when it is comprehensively used by a particular population of farmers might mean gathering a huge amount of data about those individuals, their behaviors, farming performance, networks, likes and dislikes.

How the solution is 'user-friendly':

We base on local operating procedures in designing and development where by users are involved in order to understand how they operate and even farmers entities on figuring out how they provide services and support to customers and finding out the limiting factors. In order to be inclusive during development we use normal applications and tools that are already known to users and entities and improve, we understand the technological literacy and we strengthen existing entities through which we base to servicing the wider audience.

How the solution ensures interoperability:

We are focusing on the use of Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), whereby it will act as bridge and allow unrelated software programs to communicate with one another. Interoperability on different applications will be allowed hence data can flow regardless of how each application was originally designed.

How the solution accounts for low connectivity environments and for users with low literacy and numeracy levels:

We have a version that works online and offline and also expecting to implement books that can be digitized basically for users with low literacy and our platform produces visualized data for users.

Vision over the next three to five years to implement or grow the solution to affect the lives of more people:

To be more inclusive not only offering our service to farmers but also includes the wider population of entrepreneurs for financial inclusion. In five years we will become a major Blockchain Platform where by users can perform transactions and own digital wallets. The platform will calculate user spendable balance and authenticating new transactions that can be verified thereby ensuring they're actually owned by the spender. This platform will become sustainable as it is implemented following the existing managerial structure at whereby we create ownership from district to village level leaders and even entities that interact with farmers.

Solution website

https://outreachtraders.com/

Solution app or product

https://kilimodata.info/

Promotional video of solution:

Country where the solution primarily operates:

Tanzania

About Your Team

How the solution team is organized:

Non-Profit

How many people work on the solution:

1-5

Solution age:

Less than 1 year

The organizations applicants are currently working with:

I have worked as Information Technology Administrator for more than eight (8) years in a SHARE IT (Strengthen Health Academics and Resources for Education In Tanzania) project that is ending on March 2019, this is funded by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Afterwards I will work full time in OUTREACH TRADERS activity.

Applicant skills that can attract the different resources needed to succeed and make an impact:

I have more that 8 years of experience working in ICT industry managing IT systems and also developing application and even been trained in various areas from Computer Network, Database, Server systems management and security and data analysis.

We are a consortium with diverse expertise we have a Team leader with Ph.D. Agronomy, a Plant breeder and conservation scientist, agricultural and biodiversity expert.

A Director General with more than 30 years of experience and has held Directorate positions in Research Institutions in Tanzania with Pure and Applied Biologist, pest and pesticide management

Revenue model:

Considering to the fact than we are working with small scale farmers and would like them to attain optimal performance and not fail to apply inputs/agronomic inputs. We are already in talks with Tanzania Agriculture Development Bank (TADB) to be funded under Rural Innovation Fund that they have initiated.

As land is the most important form of easy access to collateral for loans, farmers will able to use that property as security when borrowing, Only 1/3 loans of the value of the land will be borrowed to finance Agronomic inputs and Our Interventions.

We also offer tractability service which will enhance farmers to link their products to the market, we will be charging per Kilogram/Packaging. Currently due to the the market on Magugu aromatic rice being abused farmers are not enjoying the premium price that is 2250 to 2400 Tanzanian shillings per Kilogram and end up selling at 1500 to 2400 Tanzanian shillings per kilogram. Securing this loss its a call for financial gain.

Partnership Potential